Designs for Living: Claire Dorsett and Cherry Tenneson

Responding to a trip to Copenhagen, a land of simple and practical yet striking and innovative approaches to design, Claire Dorsett presents a series of new paintings on building materials, challenging what a painting is or could be, and referencing the recent construction and continuing evolution of the HOME building.

Appropriating the graphic design of institutional, corporate signage and advertising, Cherry Tenneson presents a new series of drawings and paintings that function as interventional diagrams and signs throughout the public areas of HOME. These interventions seek to highlight and celebrate the banal, everyday experiences of encountering information in an institutional setting.

These new commissions will feature in and around our Granada Foundation Galleries, poking at the structures, designs and information we navigate daily, which tells us how we should live and what we need.

Exhibition information

Dates

Fri 11 Mar 2016 – Sun 12 Jun 2016

Venue

Granada Foundation Galleries

Our Granada Foundation Galleries can be found on the first and second floor, merging with social space and adjacent to our busy restaurant and cinemas. Level one features an impressive triple-height giant wall that has hosted busy salon-hangs, more formal grid display and large-scale murals.

Level two faces our Cinema Bar and Roof Terrace, which combined feature approximately 6-8 exhibitions per year. Our focus in these spaces is HOME Projects, an arm of the visual art programme that prioritises North West artists, affordable art and emerging curators. Much of the work is often for sale, including limited edition prints via our Bookshop and Box Office, encouraging personal patronage of regional creative talent, with many works less than £100. We also prioritise photography, graphic arts, illustration and design, these being fields that lack presentation opportunities within the region, in addition to intentionally blurring the distinction between gallery, cinema and theatre spaces.